Joseph Daniels’ attorneys argued that the prosecutors didn’t prove Daniels murdered his son Joe Clyde while the state asked the jurors to “not reward him for concealing (Joe’s) body” in the eighth and final day of Daniels trial.
The trial for Daniels, a Dickson County father who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2018 disappearance of Joe, finished Friday in Dickson County Circuit Court with the following closing arguments:
‘Planted the seed’
Assistant District Attorney Josh Turnbow told the jury that Joe was a “developmentally delayed” child who was “making good progress.”
“But then all that came to an end on a dark, cold stormy night,” Turnbow said.
The sixth day in the trial of Joseph Daniels included details of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation s analysis of evidence from the Daniels home and a field where the defendant once told the authorities he buried his son, Joe Clyde.
The trial, which continued Wednesday, also included the juror’s viewing of spontaneous comments investigators say Daniels made while searching for Joe Clyde.
Daniels is a Dickson County father who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2018 disappearance of his 5-year-old son, Joe Clyde.
The following are some of the notable items that occurred in Dickson County Circuit Court on Wednesday: